Reports / 2026-10-16

The compute market on Oct 16

The Index closed at 132.5, −2.1% on the previous close. 5 detected repricings, all increases. 1,302 observations across 12 providers and 20 parts.

Index close

132.5

Repricings

5 (0↓ 5↑)

Widest spread

5.9×

NVIDIA H100 SXM

Median spot discount

50%

19 parts

Known price events

Date TBA — DeepSeek has pre-announced an API price increase. Their own docs flag a significant increase without naming a date. We hold the before/after and will timestamp it when it lands. source (verified 2026-08-11)

What repriced

NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM · datacrunch	$1.46 → $1.47	+1.0%
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM · datacrunch	$2.00 → $2.02	+1.0%
NVIDIA H100 SXM · datacrunch	$4.17 → $4.21	+1.0%
NVIDIA H200 SXM · datacrunch	$5.44 → $5.49	+1.0%
NVIDIA L40S · datacrunch	$1.70 → $1.72	+1.0%

Biggest median moves

NVIDIA RTX 4090 $1.30 +74.7%NVIDIA RTX 5090 $1.61 +52.5%NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe $1.40 −44.8%NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe $1.15 −26.8%NVIDIA H100 NVL $3.54 +17.4%

Every figure above is recomputed from that day’s recorded observations — nothing here is written by a model or taken from a news feed. Scheduled events are hand-verified against the company’s own page, with the date checked. Methodology.